Ye Bei, Gao Xiaosong, lao wolf, representative figures of Chinese campus folk songs.
In the 1990s, when the campus folk songs were booming, Ye Bei was a rare female representative of folk songs at that time. The "Age of White Clothes" she sang, and the song "Youth Without Regret" sung with the old wolf, are important memories of the youth of a generation.
"I remember in 2012 in Wukesong, I sang "The Age of White Clothes Fluttering", when the light chaser on the stage came over, I suddenly had a particularly intertwined and complex emotion in my heart, and I burst into tears. When I was crying while holding the microphone, I thought, Ye Bei, you are a professional singer, don't affect your expression. ”
2012 Gao Xiaosong Works National Tour Beijing Old Wolf and Ye Bei
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Where did Ye Bei go?
The youth past related to "The Age of White Clothes" is always mentioned by people, and Ye Bei has long chosen to fade out of the mainstream vision and return her life to zero. She doesn't work, she doesn't run for fame and fortune, she goes to get married, buy groceries, take the subway, all just so that she can blend in with the crowd and breathe easily. It seems that the audience has not completely bid farewell to the era of white clothes fluttering, but Ye Bei has long gone.
Not long ago, Ye Bei brought her new album "Falling in Love with You on the Wandering", as a guest of "Celebrity Face to Face". It's been nine years since she last released an album.
Ye Bei's album "The Age of Innocence"
Xu Gehui:
What have you been doing all these years?
Ye Bei:
Out of an inner observation of yourself, that is, the position you have obtained in a certain state will make you more overwhelmed, it will make me feel that it is not so real, and it will still have some separation from life.
Maybe you are busy every day, receiving various announcements, and when you wake up, you don't know which city you are lying in, and then you can't be impatient when people want to sign, but you will slowly find that you don't know where your heart is, right?
Yes, I think it's a little unreal.
So what is your real life like?
Groceries, cooking.
Does anyone know you when you buy groceries?
Nobody, don't know.
But after you return to this real life you longed for, is there any loss?
No, I feel particularly comfortable, really.
How long did it last?
I've always been like this, I even take the subway.
Ye Bei and friends
"My youth really didn't go through in vain"
In 1996, Gao Xiaosong released the musical compilation album "Youth Without Regret", in which Ye Bei sang four songs. It was at that time that she met Gao Xiaosong, a young man who dropped out of school, an unemployed engineer, and Xiao Ke, a people's teacher. Since then, Ye Bei's world has had several strange big boys, and she has also become a professional singer.
Ye Bei and the old wolf
The first time you saw Gao Xiaosong, what was he like? He was thin at the time.
Thin, long hair. But the two of us met because I was singing in a bar when I was a student, so we met in the dark light.
Was he the one who took the initiative to find you?
Yes, our art director said, Gao Xiaosong wants to know you, I will introduce you to know, I also said who Gao Xiaosong was, because at that time the name was relatively unfamiliar, but because "You at the Same Table" was particularly popular, so the art director added another sentence that he was the author of "You at the Same Table".
I know that Gao Xiaosong is particularly popular now, so people around me who have not been in touch for many years will suddenly send me WeChat one day and say, when can you eat with that Gao Xiaosong and call me, I said why? She said oops he's so charming, I said you mean he's charming or what charming? She said he did that show, but you can imagine that in the eyes of a considerable part of the audience, they are so talented, so I was thinking, my life, my youth is really not in vain.
Gao Xiaosong was young
Ye Bei, who studied at the China Conservatory of Music, carries the Qinggao of the academic school. In the old wolf's memory, Ye Bei didn't say much at that time, and was a well-behaved girl who was strictly guarded in the family. Every night when she went to find Gao Xiaosong to record, Ye Bei's mother would follow.
Every time Gao Xiaosong saw Ye Bei's mother, he would say, "Don't come after auntie to record, we are all good people." But every time Ye Bei's mother heard Gao Xiaosong with long hair and shawls and full of acne say this, she was even more unsteady.
But how could you be willing to sing in a bar at that time?
Because of my work-study, I read during the day and sing at night.
So does your mother agree?
My mother agreed, and the teacher agreed, of course, her kind of consent may actually be verbal consent, and her heart disagrees. So my mom just basically followed me, and I sang at night and she followed me.
She has to protect you.
Yes, I remember what impressed me so much was that I was singing in that disco, and my mom was just twisting her waist there. Black lights blind fire, neon lights where twisted waist. At that time, I sang four songs for 15 minutes, and when I came down, I saw my mother spinning her stomach there, and I said mom, we should go, my mom said it was so fast to leave, I haven't finished a lap of exercise yet.
Change or change, which requires more guts?
Through the 1990s, campus folk songs gradually lost their temperature.
Gao Xiaosong went to the United States, and the old wolf married and gave birth to a baby to live a semi-retired life. Under the packaging inside and outside the record company, Ye Bei released several albums, but she felt that something was wrong.
In 2008, she made a choice between music and life. Buying vegetables and cooking and traveling around has become the main theme of life. She didn't stop composing, writing songs one by one, but she never rushed to publish them.
So are you saying that this is also an escapist mentality?
You say is not to escape I think about it, it is not the same. On the one hand, after the original traditional record became online, everyone is waiting and seeing this game, and I also want to wait and see what kind of way it should be used to present the work is more correct. Then I found that there was really no need to wait and see, because while you were watching, the method had passed again, and now it was changing too fast.
Then while watching, I also feel that this market is very chaotic, and anyone still listens to the song? Because a large number of record labels are gone, you will feel that the point of doing this is.
Ye Bei's new album is called "Falling in Love with You on the Wandering", and the entire album is all arranged by Ye Bei from word to song. The style is the same as before, it is still a beautiful folk song. Her staff sent us the creative concept of the album, the core of which is to convey the beautiful and protect the innocence.
Some people say that ye Bei's works after so many years are still that style.
But today, in order to seek speed and innovation, who can say which is more courageous, change or change.
I've always thought you were quite spontaneous. Why? It means that you are still quite pampered.
Yes, it is the family for girls, can not say pampered, but my mother gave me the guidance of mentality is, don't be afraid, just work hard, I have never had that competitive thing. Your kind of calm is derived from the family's support for you, when you encounter something, you will feel that the family is a big backing for you, they will always be on your side, always on your results, without any expectations, just feel that in the process, you enjoy playing as much as you want, so I really play and grow up.
I don't actually put myself in an entertainment market, I think it's what I want, which may actually be quite unpopular. So a lot of people say, I may be a little ungrounded.
Your mother is also engaged in this profession, then you will not sometimes be very childish and want to say, I appear more in the camera, so that my parents can see, they may be happier.
Yes, I feel like I have a child's way of expressing, I always want her to see, I don't idle every day. Even sometimes there is a little bit of careful thinking, such as printing her a medical examination report, the reverse is my contract, and then intentionally let her see, the daughter is not idle and has done something serious.
So you're so cute. You don't particularly care whether the audience has forgotten you, but you are particularly concerned about whether your mother thinks you are busy.
I care about my mom.
It's so cute, we must tell your mom to watch this episode before it airs.
Ye Bei and her family
Editor: Liu Mengqi Bean